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After a lot of work Aral Balkan has finally revealed the Site for the first global web based conference Singularity 2008 that will take place this October the days 23-24.
For those of you who don’t know what Singularity is, this is a conference that you can attend right at your …

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Gumbo is the code name of the next version of Adobe Flex and new information about it has been made available on the Gumbo Page of the Flex Open Source site.
Some of the highlights on the next version of Flex include the following:
Themes of the Release
Design in mind
A framework for …

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Adobe has just dropped the licensing restrictions on the SWF and FLV formats as part of the open screen project .

Here’s an excerpt of the text in the Open Screen Project’s site.
The Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,FLEX IDE,OPEN SOURCE,TUTORIALS         3 comments

Richard Lord has recently released the Version 0.9.4 of Flint.

I made this example using Flint particle system is an Actionscript 3.0 Open Source project with the aim of create a library that handles the common functionality for all particle systems. To see it work just click anywhere on stage and …

 3D,ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,EXAMPLES,FLEX IDE,OPEN SOURCE,TUTORIALS         2 comments

Here’s a little try on the new Papervision3D Branch Effects based on the tutorial/example of Andy Zupko, the new pixel effects added to the branch look great, this was made using Flex 3 Beta 3.

Check it here.
Download Source here

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Yes that’s right I said Papervision 3D 2.0 it’s an alpha codenamed GreatWhite and as Ralph Hauwert says in his blog it’s not fully optimized just yet but it’s alredy on de svn on Papervision3D googlecode project.
Here’s some of it’s new features:
Viewport3D – Auto sizing, clipping and culling, enables you …

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This morning reading my feeds I found a great Library for AS3 posted by Zeh, the Bulk Loader kit nicely written by Authur Debert it’s meant to make complex loading easy freeing you from the Loading and letting you concentrate on other parts of your project.
The project …

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I’m very happy to announce that Aral Balkan has released the Version 1.0 of SWX PHP and SWX ActionScript Library, The major changes from SWX PHP Release Candidate 1 include a revamped Start Page with new, royalty-free icons, and a friendly new list view for the Services and Flash examples …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0,FLASH PLAYER,OPEN SOURCE         4 comments

Well, it seems that Mr. Aral Balkan doesn’t lose a minute, aside of all the OS ( open source ) Flash Proyects of OSFlash, hes been developing a great proyect SWX wish is a native data format for Flash. It uses SWF files to store and exchange data. It …